Sam Bourne is the literary pseudonym of Jonathan Freedland, an
award-winning British journalist and broadcaster. He is a weekly
columnist for the Guardian (UK), having served as that paper's
Washington correspondent. His work has appeared in the New York
Times, the New York Review of Books, the Los Angeles Times, the
Washington Post, Newsweek, and the New Republic. He is a regular
contributor to the Jewish Chronicle (UK) and presents BBC Radio 4's
contemporary history series The Long View.
Bourne is the author of the New York Times and number one UK
bestseller The Righteous Men, which has been translated into
twenty-eight languages, and The Last Testament. He has also written
two nonfiction works, Jacob's Gift and Bring Home the Revolution.
He lives in London with his wife and two children.
Bestseller Bourne (the pseudonym of British journalist Jonathan Freedland) follows his 2006 debut, The Righteous Men, with another Jewish-themed thriller, a cliche-ridden hodgepodge. Weeks before a closely fought U.S. presidential election, disgraced diplomat Maggie Costello comes out of self-imposed exile to mediate a final Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement. When a prominent right-wing academic, Shimon Guttman, tries to reach the Israeli prime minister with an urgent message during a peace rally, security guards gun him down because they fear he was trying to assassinate the prime minister. Costello joins with Guttman's son to track down the secret his father uncovered that could radically affect the negotiations. Bourne does nothing to endear Costello to readers by revealing the reason for her earlier diplomatic disgrace. The ludicrous denouement involves a high-ranking official confessing to all his misdeeds while unknowingly being filmed on a Web cam. (May) Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.
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